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Sixty-six vehicles have drawn the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Top Safety Pick award for 2011, including 40 cars, 25 SUVs and a minivan. Hyundai/Kia and Volkswagen/Audi each have nine winners for 2011.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced that the MY 2010-2011 Suzuki Kizashi midsize vehicle has drawn "good" ratings -- the highest possible -- for its performance in front- and side-impact crash tests.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - Bumpers on cars are designed to match up with each other in collisions, but federal regulations exempt SUVs from the same rules. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, new crash tests demonstrate the results: SUV bumpers that don't line up with those on cars can lead to huge repair bills.
Read More →DETROIT - At General Motors' Anthropomorphic Test Device (ATD) lab, new hyper-tech dummies talk in hyper-speed, recording and transmitting crash data 10,000 times a second. Two-hundred crash test dummies of all shapes and sizes are wired with 70-80 sensors each that tell safety engineers exactly how much and what kind of forces they endure during crash tests.
Read More →DETROIT - The 2011 GMC Acadia has received a five-star crash test rating in the federal government's New Car Assessment Program.
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NHTSA’s updated safety rating program could result in lower ratings for 2011-MY vehicles, even though vehicles are no less safe than those of the previous model-year.
Read More →WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation on Oct. 5 unveiled an upgraded 5-Star Safety Ratings System for new vehicles and released the safety ratings for the first 2011 model-year vehicles tested under the program.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - The new Buick Regal has drawn the Top Safety Pick award from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - The Ford Fiesta sedan/hatchback is the first minicar to draw the coveted "Top Safety Pick" award since the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety added a roof strength requirement for rollover protection.
Read More →ARLINGTON, VA - The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has given Top Safety Pick awards to the 2011 Cadillac CTS and Infiniti M37/M56, after the vehicles performed exceptionally well in roof strength tests that assess how well vehicles would protect people in rollover crashes.
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